Accountability - It's Not Just For Businesses

Merriam Webster's Online Dictionary defines ACCOUNTABILITY as "an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions".

Do you think Melissa Bean views accountability in the same manner? Businesses have to be accountable to their lenders, their employees, and to their vendors. Publicly held companies have to be accountable to their shareholders and investors, the SEC, and sadly other government organizations and czars.

Individuals have to be accountable to their families and friends, their lenders (mortgages, car loans, etc.), their bills, and their jobs. If individuals are in school, they are accountable to their teachers and families.

Who else are we accountable to? The biggest entity of all - the U.S. Government. If you don't pay your taxes, who comes knocking on your door? The IRS. If you don't fill out your census information, how many postcards and door knockers have you gotten and will you expect to get?

Who does Congress have to be accountable to when they make a poor vote or a series of poor votes and decisions? The U.S. Constitution states that the U.S. House of Representatives have newly elected members every 2 years. The U.S. Senate has newly elected members every 6 years, 1/3 of existing members are up for re-election every 2 years.

The way for Melissa Bean's constituents to hold her accountable is to vote her out in November. She refuses to hold her constituents' overwhelming desires and wishes ahead of her party's interests, so we MUST hold her accountable in November.

Why should We, The People, be held accountable to our obligations and to our government when Congress appears to not care whether they are held accountable to their constituents? Why should Melissa Bean be held to a lesser level of accountability than businesses and individuals?

The obvious and simple answer is that she should not. We MUST hold her accountable for her decisions, actions, and votes in November. We have an obligation to hold her accountable, ESPECIALLY since she does not see herself accountable to her constituents but instead to her party leadership.

Congress vs the PEOPLE

This weekend approximately 25,000 have gathered in Washington D.C. to protest against the Healthcare bill. A bill of over 2,000 pages that most members of Congress have not read but will still vote on it this Sunday. This bill is only the start of the government take over of health care. The Speaker of the House and the President both have publicly said that this bill is only the start of planned reforms. In the end this Healthcare bill will cost more, add more to the National Debt and allow the Federal Government to control your access to health care. This bill will also give the Federal Government more control over student loans. As the President & the Speaker said, this is only the start of the reforms they have in mind for the nation.

This is the time when We the People need to take back our government and remind Washington that it is our government. When Congresswoman Bean votes "yes" for this bill, that is when we vote for Joe Walsh in November.

Have you met Joe yet?

Bean - The So-Called Moderate

How could Congresswoman Bean consider herself a moderate? There have been several votes where she could have put her constituents, her district and her "moderate" beliefs ahead of her party. She chose not to. Cap and trade. BAD for small business, bad for constituents paying for electricity and natural gas. BAD on principle, VERY BAD in this economy.

Congresswoman Bean voted for the Healthcare bill to get out of the House to go to the Senate. BAD for small business, VERY BAD for every person who needs to see a doctor. Common sense dictates that by covering 30 million more people with the same or less number of existing doctors, that healthcare would not be rationed. It just defies logic.

It also defies logic that covering 30 million more people will not raise the deficit and debt. How could there be more people to cover without it costing more money? The obvious answer is to increase taxes, but how much can you raise taxes? Raise taxes on healthcare, raise taxes on energy, raise taxes on investments, etc. At some point, the well runs dry.

The truth of the matter is that Congresswoman Bean has put party ahead of people. If she votes for the Healthcare bill, whether it be by deem and pass or an outright vote, she can no longer consider herself a moderate Democrat. A lot of people stopped considering her a moderate a while ago, but with this important legislation, she will no longer be able to consider herself a moderate. She will be as progressive and liberal as her party tells her to be. That's where her record stands, and SHE should have the courage to stand for principles and the constituents that she went to Washington with and for, not loyalty to party first.

Republicans on the Rise

A recent Rasmussen Poll, reports voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on key issues.

Republicans lead Democrats 46% to 41% in terms of voter trust on the economy.

Voters trust Democrats more on government ethics and corruption, 35% to 28%. But 27% are not sure whom to trust.

Republicans are trusted more than Democrats on the issue of health care, of those polled 45% place their trust in Republicans, while 42% trust Democrats more.

Voters not affiliated with either major political party heavily favor Republicans on health care, 45% to 29%.

On taxes, Republicans hold an 11-point lead, down from a 16-point lead in early February. Republicans have led Democrats on this issue for over a year.

Republicans now hold a four-point lead over Democrats on abortion, down from 14 points last month.

Voters trust Republicans more on national security by a 47% to 37% margin, little changed from the previous survey.

Republicans still have a long way to go but it seems they are headed in the right direction as compared to Democrats. What the Republicans need are more good candidates in local and national elections. We in the 8^th District have State Rep. Ed Sullivan Jr., State Sen. Dan Duffy, and candidate for the 8^th District in Congress Joe Walsh.

2nd Amendment Rally

The 2010 ILL. Gun Owners Lobby Day (IGOLD) in Srpringfield March 10th.
Just 3,000+ ordinary citizens lobbying their government for their rights.
Will the Democratic Cook County controlled State government listen?

8th District Republican Chairman

I am writing this letter to THANK YOU for your tremendous support for my re-election as your Chairman of the 8^th Congressional District.

The support I received at the Convention was both humbling and overwhelming. I promised four years ago that I would work hard. I hope I have shown that I keep my word. You have given me the opportunity to continue your work to make the Republican Party in Illinois something we can be PROUD of. We have a great conservative Platform and we should be following that Platform for the benefit of all of out constituents

Let us all work hard to get our Candidates elected in November so that we may once again be proud of “The Land of Lincoln-The Great State of Illinois”.

I will give Connie a card for each of you so that you have my information and can contact me at any time.

Sincerely,

Gene Dawson,

A very proud member of your State Central Committee

A message from Joe Walsh

Walsh to Bean on Health Care Vote:
Vote Your District Not Your Party

(Lake Zurich, Illinois) - 8th District Republican congressional nominee Joe Walsh today called on his liberal Democrat opponent Rep. Melissa Bean to swallow her pride and vote “No” on the Obamacare federal takeover of health care legislation nearing a vote in the House.

“For the first time in a long time Melissa Bean needs to listen to her constituents and vote her district,” said Walsh.

“A government takeover of health care is absolutely the wrong approach to fix what ails with health care in America- and 8th district voters know it.

“Melissa Bean was not elected to represent public sector unions and march in lockstep with her party.

“She was elected to represent the interests of 8th district families and support policies that speak to their very real economic insecurities. This legislation will worsen the quality of care we have access to and increase unemployment,” Walsh said.

The proposed takeover of health care that would cost Illinois 169,000 jobs, $4,418 per person, and shrink Illinois’ economy by 5.1 percent, according to a study by the Illinois Policy Institute. This is against the backdrop of a state with 11% unemployment.

“A vote for this health care bill is vote against the economic interests of 8th district families, plain and simple,” Walsh added.

Can you hear us yet?

This past Wednesday afternoon the leaders of the New Democrat Coalition visited to the Oval Office, their membership includes Melissa Bean, Illinois 8th District. President Obama reminded them how important it was for them to vote for the Democrat Health-care Bill. The majority of the American People wants Congress to start over and produce a Health-care program that will not mortgage our future. If Melissa Bean and the rest of Congress does not listen to the People, the People this November will replace the members in Congress.

Have you met Joe yet?

Congress vs the PEOPLE

The first post-primary Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 telephone survey of the Kirk-Giannoulias race finds Republican Mark Kirk holds a modest 46% to 40% lead over Democrat Alexi Giannoulias in the race for the Illinois Senate following the February party primaries. In the survey voters not affiliated with either of the major parties, Mark Kirk holds a sizable 59% to 22% lead.

The poll also showed President Obama native of Illinois is less popular in the state today. Fifty-four percent (54%) of Illinois voters approve of the job the president is doing while 45% disapprove. Those figures include 33% who strongly approve and 35% who strongly disapprove.

Seventy-one percent (71%) of Illinois voters say the federal government has become a special interest group, and 67% think the government and big business often work together to hurt consumers and investors.

This does not look good for Democrat incumbents to Congress. Could this be the real motive for the attack from the Liberal media against Congressional candidate Joe Walsh? The Liberal media that supports President Obama and wants him to have the support in Congress from members of Congress like Melissa Bean. They fail to take into account that the PEOPLE do not approve of the programs that Congress and the President want.